Select Committee inquiry into National Policy Statement for ports 

The NPSP provides guidance to applicants in preparing planning applications for nationally significant infrastructure projects relating to ports. This follows the government holding a consultation on revisions to the current NPSP, which closed on 29 July.  

Logistics UK's response to the government consultation can be accessed here. In our submission, we highlighted that 95% of goods enter the UK by sea; that ports are unable to obtain timely and cost-effective grid upgrades necessary for the maritime sector to decarbonise; and that ports are nodes in the transport network and do not operate in a transport silo. Decarbonisation of the sector must take a multi modal approach and consider other users of ports.